Zain-ud-Din Salah

Zain-ud-Din Salah (14 June 1979-28 July 2006) was an al-Qaeda in Iraq leader.

Biography
Zain-ud-Din Salah was born on 14 June 1979 in Karbala, Ba'athist Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and he joined the Iraqi Popular Army in 1987 during the Iran-Iraq War, rising to the rank of Sergeant during the Gulf War. Salah was a member of the Fedayeen Saddam militia during peacetime, and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States, Salah joined the al-Qaeda in Iraq militant group to resist the US occupation in the Iraq War. Salah was killed in Operation Swift Blow in Karbala in 2006.